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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Two Monks Contemplating a Skull

c. 1730–35
Brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
43.7 × 29.6 cm (17.2 × 11.7 in)

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